How To Quickly Improve Your Online Writing

April 13, 2016 By Sabrina Quairoli This post may contain affiliate links. Under the Cookies and Policies in the menu above, read the Disclosure Policies and Cookies page for more details.

If you have read my blog, you know that I am big on getting to the point to inspire you to take action quickly and simply. The below FREE extension in Chrome has helped me speed up my online writing and helped me improve my grammar skills at the same time. Here’s how I did it.

Before using this Grammarly extension, I would write my post, then have to wait for a few hours or a day, before I would revisit the post for editing. I was told when I was in school to put the essay down before and step away from it before doing the editing process so I always did it this way. But, when I started blogging 4 days a week, this resulted in many hours wasted.

So, the beginning of this year, I started using the “free” version of Grammarly (an extension in Chrome) and I just love it.

Here are my favorite features of this Grammarly free version.

Blog content gets reviewed as I write: As I write this post at the bottom right-hand corner of the content area, Grammarly shows a red (for grammar mistakes) or a Green for (no errors). Note: Sometimes I have to ignore the suggestion because it doesn’t relate to the sentence I had written. This especially happens when I write Sabrina’s Organizing posts. Readers understand what I am talking about so I just ignore Grammarly. That’s OK, though.

Scans my comments on OTHER blog posts: When posting comments on other blogs, it helps edit grammar and spelling errors. I love this feature because sometimes, I misspell a word or I forget to write a word like “the”, “on”, or “in” instead of “on” and Grammarly picks it up. Awesome, right? The comment image below my comment on “Creating Your Weekly Email Marketing Plan Part 1: Do’s & Dont’s” from Autumn’s blog “Smart Happy Organized” – Check it out! See how it underlined the misspelling. It also underlined in green for grammar errors like “in” because it wanted me to use “on”.

Pop-up window shows the entire written work. When I click on the Green or Red circle, there is an “Open Grammarly” or “Critical Error” button. Pressing the button will allow me to see my entire document in the pop-up window. Here is the pop-up image of what Grammarly says about the above comment.

There is an option to turn it off quickly. At the top right of your Chrome browser, you will notice, the Green circle with an arrow. Click on the image in your browser and you can toggle the first “Check for Grammar and Spelling on …” from right to left and it will stop reviewing your work. Also, turn off “Show Definitions and Synonyms via Double-Clicks (All Sites)” if you want.

Sabrina, thanks for writing this. Yes, it’s true that sometimes Grammarly could be really helpful for bloggers and writers. Besides, there are two great tools which I can suggest to use – Hemingway Editor and Unplag. The first is an awesome free tool, which illuminates the complex parts in your sentences and suggests you how you can improve readability of your text. The second is an online plagiarism checker, which helps you to get rid of duplicated parts in your writing and be sure that your work is 100% original.

Really good information to know Sabrina! It drives me crazy when I’ve read and edited a post a million times before publishing only to discover that I misspelled a word or left something out! I will definitely check into Grammarly 🙂

I tried Grammarly and really didn’t like it at all. It followed me everywhere I went on the web and when I emailed customer support to find out if I could disengage it in FB and other social platforms, they said, “No”, which I found very strange. I’d love to use it on my blogs, however, I also don’t use Chrome very much as it isn’t the most compatible browser with my Macbook. If you know of any ways to have Grammarly NOT follow me everywhere online, I would love to know, as it sounds like most people who use it love it! Thanks Sabrina.

I LOVE using Grammarly. It does several things in addition to make corrections so my writing is more professional. I feel better knowing I’m not releasing typos, wrong grammar & so on. It is fast, easy & free.
I love the Chrome extensions I use, like Buffering tweets that take other’s images along.

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